Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1345
Advisory Release Date: 2019-11-04 22:04 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-11-07 00:27 Pacific
Severity:
Low
Issue Overview:
A NULL Pointer Dereference occurs in the function TIFFPrintDirectory in tif_print.c in LibTIFF 4.0.9 when using the tiffinfo tool to print crafted TIFF information, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-18013. (This affects an earlier part of the TIFFPrintDirectory function that was not addressed by the CVE-2017-18013 patch.)(CVE-2018-7456)
Affected Packages:
compat-libtiff3
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update compat-libtiff3 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.amzn2.aarch64
compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-12.amzn2.aarch64
i686:
compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.amzn2.i686
compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-12.amzn2.i686
src:
compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.amzn2.src
x86_64:
compat-libtiff3-3.9.4-12.amzn2.x86_64
compat-libtiff3-debuginfo-3.9.4-12.amzn2.x86_64